Abstract

The present work uses a co-rotating approach for obtain the internal forces and tangent stiness matrices for three plane beam elements. All of them are based on the same co-rotational approach, and di er by the strain de nition used in the local co-rotational coordinate system. [...]

Abstract

We present a phase field model to simulate brittle fracture in an initially straight Euler–Bernoulli beam, with generalization to curved beams. [...]